Deutsche eMark (DEM) is a decentralised, open-source cryptocurrency forked from Litecoin in 2013. Originating in Germany, the project is a nostalgic attempt to re-create the country's old "Deutschmark" as a digital currency. It is a hybrid proof-of-work/proof-of-stake cryptocurrency with SHA-256 as hashing algorithm. A total of 20 billion coins will be produced, with the first 500 million proof-of-work coins mined by the year 2051, exactly 50 years after the introduction of the euro. Original announcement.

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BitKey is a FREE, Debian-based live Linux distribution designed for Bitcoin users; it comes with specialist utilities to perform highly secure air-gapped Bitcoin transactions. It contains a swiss army knife of handy Bitcoin tools that support a wide range of usage models, including a few very secure ones which would otherwise be difficult to perform. The system boots into one of the three available modes: "cold-offline" - for creating a wallet and signing transactions; "cold-online" - for watching the wallet and preparing transactions; "hot-online" - standard usage but less secure as the private keys are known to the computer which is connected to the internet.

A cryptocoin faucet is a website that gives out small amounts of coins for free. The reasons for the giveaway vary - from spreading the awareness for the coin to allowing the users test their client software. Some third-party faucets give out coins with the sole purpose of making money from advertising by attracting high volumes of traffic to their websites. To combat fraud and automated access via scripts, the visitors on some faucet sites may need to demonstrate that they are human by answering a captcha or by playing a simple game.

CLAMS developer "dooglus" has announced the release of CLAMS (CLAM) 1.4.17, the latest stable version of the project's a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency. Some of the changes in this version include: "Add RPC commands getstaketo and getrewardto; fix to allow building against Boost v1.58; add deleteprivkey RPC command to allow (irreversible, destructive, dangerous) deletion of addresses from the user's wallet; extend createrawtransaction to allow specification of per-output lock times; make time locked outputs 'standard'; removed the 'weight' column from the coincontrol dialog. Weight is the same as the value of an output now; fix a crash that happened if creditstakestoaccounts was set and someone else sent us some of their reward as they staked." See the release notes on the project's GitHub pages for more information. The new CLAMS client is available for Linux, OS X or Windows; download from here: clam-1.4.17-linux64.tar.gz (11.3MB), clam-1.4.17-osx.dmg (8.28MB), clam-1.4.17-win64.zip (23.6MB). The source code link: v1.4.17.tar.gz (3.87MB).

CLAMS (CLAM), a pure proof-of-stake cryptocurrency launched in May 2014, has been updated to version 1.4.12. This is mostly a bug-fix release. The changes include: "Fixed an issue with coin selection; previously the client would attempt to create transactions over 100 kB in size if there were too many 'dust' outputs in the wallet. Modified the signrawtransaction RPC command in such a way that it will now use all available private keys to sign the transaction; previously if you specified private keys in the RPC command itself, it would only use those private keys and would ignore any in the wallet. It also wouldn't look up the scripts for multisig addresses in the wallet if keys were supplied in the RPC command. Now it does. Changed Bitcoin references to Clam." Here are the brief release notes. Download the new CLAMS wallet for Linux, OS X or Windows: clam-1.4.12-linux64.tar.gz (11.4MB), clam-1.4.12-osx.dmg (8.34MB), clam-1.4.12-win64-setup.exe (10.0MB). Finally, a quick link to the source code on GitHub: v1.4.12.tar.gz (3.87MB).

CLAMS developer "dooglus" has announced the release of CLAMS (CLAM) 1.4.11, the latest version of the pure proof-of-stake cryptocurrency launched in May 2014. Some of the changes presented in the release announcement include: "The sendtoaddress and sendfrom RPC calls can now specify the amount as {"amount":aaa,"count":ccc} to cause the send amount to be split into ccc outputs each of size aaa CLAMs - this allows users to more easily split their coins into multiple outputs without needing to resort to the raw transactions calls; replace bitcoind with clamd in OS/X build instructions; fix the bug that caused the staking icon to occasionally complain about 'no mature outputs'; new flag to say whether to credit staking rewards to the account to which the staking output belongs - until now no account at all was credited with staking rewards and so listaccounts amounts didn't sum to the current balance; correctly randomize change output position; correctly parse -splitsize, etc. to allow decimal values, previously only the integer part was used...." Download links: clam-1.4.11-linux64.tar.gz (11.4MB), clam-1.4.11-osx.dmg (8.34MB), clam-1.4.11-win64-setup.exe (9.95MB). The source code is available from GitHub: v1.4.11.tar.gz (3.87MB).